What if...?

Welcome to the Front Porch!! I'm terrifically excited by the idea I will start presenting to you here. I so hope you share in this excitement as we begin this unveiling of what will be "our" plan!!

A major take home lesson for many of us over the past couple of years is the recognition of what an open expression of ideas can achieve. I cite the success of those groups of whom the Tea Party folks would be an example.

"What if..." 3 years ago someone had accurately shared a vision of where we'd all be today? What would you have said?

If you were like me three years ago, you felt relatively alone in your concerns regarding the decline of liberty and civilization in America. I won't review the conditions as they appeared then, as you can no doubt remember how that felt at the time. Near hopeless.

Thanks to a confluence of circumstances, events, and the emergence of a new set of American heroes, all that has changed. We've gone from quiet resignation to glowing hope for a better future. Again, I won't review the assemblage of causes which have brought us here...with one exception.

Somewhere along our recent way, we regained a lesson from our childhood. It's all about teamwork. Metaphorically, if you're the ONLY person on your athletic team, and you're playing against organized, dedicated, and fully manned opposition, your efforts will be futile. You could be Babe Ruth, Michael Jordan, Joe Montana. Your efforts would be pathetic and futile if you stood alone. If George Washington had rowed across the Delaware by himself, we'd be subjects of some European dynasty today.

For years I didn't vote. Statistically, I could prove my 'insignificance'. Many of us 'libertarian' cats have maintained a resistance to joining political causes because the numbers, special interests, and prevailing ignorance seemed prohibitive. We CHOSE relative apathy, and reaped its harvest.

In the past 2 years, we've been dazzled and have participated in the greatest team sport on earth: The quest for human liberty. We re-learned that no one of us has to have all the answers. That sometimes the 'coaches' may commit tactical errors, but they're right there with us to responsively correct their course. (Contrast that with Hitler running the defense of Western Europe from his Berlin bunker, while leaders of the opposition were there on the invasion scene to adjust to the changes and vagueries of battle minute-by-minute.) We've re-learned that there are times for us to be the coaches, and other times when we support the other coaches. If there was ever an example of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts, it's been our unification into a loose-knit, but purpose focused team with common goals.

It is with these thoughts in mind I would dare even think what I'm thinking about our 'next steps'.

Nothing is ever achieved with 'yahbutts,' with the possible exception of paralysis by analysis. I do not have all the answers to the questions this concept will raise. What I've re-learned is: I don't have to. You don't either!! Give yourself the permission of free-flowing, imaginative thought rooted in your understanding of how the 'Mainspring of Human Progress' works.

What if...


What if their were a simple socio-political plan that would free up humans to produce to their fullest potential like we haven't seen since the latter 1800's?

There were a unifying concept that would effectively bring together sincerely compassionate Liberals, free market Conservatives, and 'real-world' Libertarians in this cause?

What if all the human time, energy and resources currently scandalously wasted away by private business, government bureaucrats and private individuals in interpreting, enforcing, and paying for mounds of tax regulation, stayed, instead, in the hands of their rightful producers and owners? Can we even put a 'number' on the energy and vitality that would release into the flow of human progress?

What if there were no resources, time, energy, money, going into a labyrinthine, conflicted and corrupt bureaucracy purportedly designed to address the needs of those who can't take care of themselves? What if there were a simple, straight-forward, and, consequently, much less expensive way to actually achieve more in the arena of helping others less fortunate, for whatever combination reasons? What if the resultant savings in these resources stayed in the hands who know best how to produce from them, their originators? Can we begin to qualify what that would mean in technological and medical advances?

What if the Feds sold all except the most 'essential' land and resources---half the country---that they're holding and mismanaging 'off-market' and used the proceeds to pay the "national" debt and to restore hard currency?

What if large numbers of folks had a clear idea of how this plan could and would work?

Now, we're all vulnerable to the "yahbutts," including me. Just ride with me on this. Set aside all the interest groups currently in control who have a vested interest (or so they think) in maintaining the status quo. (How many of those could we 'peel off' if they understood what the 'status quo' is costing them and their loved ones in quality of life, longevity...? But I get ahead of myself.)

I believe this is doable. Not by me. By us. Starting with you and me. But we will have the help of those we already admire because of what they have achieved in the past 2+++ years. Plus those coming along whom we don't know presently. After 60 'effin' years of being one of those herd-resistant 'libertarian' cats, I've watched the pay-off of massive teamwork. We will not be alone. You and I do not have to start out with all the answers. We merely need the clarity of purpose and vision...the rest will fall into place.

I've intentionally been vague about the specifics up to this point in order to leave your mind free to comprehend the possibilities..."what if?"...without many "yahbutt" doubts and entanglements. The next step, off-blog will include the 3 specific, simple components to what, if I may say, is an ingenius concept. But since the first 15 seconds of an intro sets the pace for the presentation, my first 'experiment' is on you, the reader. You can only be intro'd once.

So how'm I doing?

If this interests you, I would like to disclose this plan to you under separate cover via email. Please leave your email address in the comment section below or email me personally:

jgreene2@maine.rr.com

To coin a phrase, "this may not be your cuppa tea", which is certainly OK. I would like to have private off-blog discussions with those of you who ARE interested enough to at least inquire!!

Cheers!!